Paper Playtime Challenge #45

The challenge this week over at Paper Playtime is to make a tall card with an optional Cricut Cut if you have a cricut. Here is what I came up with for you. I started with a piece of white card stock at to 8” x 9” and scored it at 4” so I ended up with a card base 4” X 9”. Using my Gypsy, Cricut Imagine and the Better Together cartridges I laid out all the elements for my card. I used the George and Basic Shapes cartridge to create the colored rectangles. I sized both rectangles to 8” and flooded one with the solid red from the Better Together cartridge and the other with this flower print also from the Better Together Imagine cartridge.  I cut the image of the lady with the presents at 6” using the layers feature.  I inked the edges of all the cuts with some brown chalk ink and adhered the two mats together and added a blue ribbon to the lower part of the card. Using the same brown chalk ink I stamped my Happy Birthday sentiment and adhered the mats to my card base with my ATG gun.  I used pop dots to adhere the individual presents to the main image cut and the pop dotted the entire image to the patterned paper. To give the card a little more bling I used Yellow stickles on the flowers on the middle package, Glam Pink on the ribbon on the small top package. In addition to these two stickle colors I also used Tutti Fruiti and True Blue on the dots of the larges package. One final touch was to add Tutti Fruiti stickles the pink flowers on the background paper along with Star Dust stickles to the blue and white flowers. This added some glitter and glitz to the card. Thanks for visiting and I hope you join in the challenge at Paper Playtime.

Paper Playtimes Challenge

This week over at Paper Playtimes we were given 3 different challenges to choose from. The choices are, 1. use green and purple, 2. use pink and glitter, or 3. use a critter and a rhyme. I chose the third challenge for my first design team project. This third challenge is in honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Horton Hears a Who was my inspiration for this card.  Here is what I came up with.
I started with a 5” X 7” pre-folded white card base. I topped that with a blue mat cut at 4 7/8” X 6 7/8”. I used my Imagine and the 8:10 proportional rectangle and flooded it with this pattern from the Better Together Imagine cartridge.  This pattern reminded me of the little wishes that Horton in Horton Hears a Who carried.  My elephant was cut at 3” and is from the Create a Critter Cricut cartridge. I used my imagine to flood each layer of the elephant with color. The top layer is filled with a blue swirly pattern. All the colors and patterns on this card are from the Better Together cartridge.  I added some bright yellow ribbon to my card and layered my little elephant together. The elephant is pop dotted to the card and I added some googly eyes and gave him a little hint of pink in his checks with some chalk. I added some faux stitching around the end of the card and sentiment and some doodle dots to the elephant.  I printed out my sentiment on the computer and used the RGB codes for my font color so it matched the dark blue on the elephants ears. The sentiment I chose was, “I meant what I said, I said what I meant, and elephant’s faithful one-hundred percent”. I thought that was a inspiring and would perfect to thank a friend for being there for you through thick or thin.
I had a lot of fun creating this card and hope you will hop on over to Paper Playtime Blog and play along with us.

Thinking of You Card

Here is a Thinking of You card I made this afternoon using my Cricut Imagine. I started with a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" white card base. I added a pink mat cut at 4" X 5 1/4". Using my Imagine I flooded a 5 1/2" square with the blue pattern from the Better Together Imagine cartridge. Once it was printed and cut I cut it down with my paper trimmer to 3 3/4" X 5". The little tree with the birds and the flowers is also from the Better Together Cricut Imagine cartridge and is on page 6 of the handbook. I used the layer feature on the Imagine and cut all the layers at 4". I used my Zig two way glue pen to glue down the tree, leaves and flowers. I pop dotted the two little birds for dimension. I added a piece of green ribbon along the bottom of the card because I thought the pattern in the ribbon gave the illusion of grass. I added a small white button to each end of the ribbon and tied a knot bow with a scrap of the same ribbon and added it to the base of the tree. The sentiment is a clear stamp I had in my stash and was stamped with Colorbox Chestnut Roan chalk ink. To finish the card I used my Sakura white gel pen to add some faux stitching along the edge of the pink mat. I also to the white gel pen and highlighted some of the dots that were on the flowers. Finally I took my Sakura glitter pen and drew over the little lines in the flowers and colored the centers for some sparkle. It doesn't really show up in the photo but looks great in person. Thanks for visiting.

Love Bug

Here is another Valentine's Day card I made using the Simply Charmed Cricut Cartridge and the Better Together Cricut Imagine Cartridge. My card base is white card card stock scored and folded to make a 4 1/4" X 5 1/2" card. My patterned paper is Basic Grey. The pink mat is cut at 4" X 5 1/4" and the top layer is cut at 3 3/4" x 5". I used my corner rounder to round all the corners of the card and the mats. I cut the little bug at 3" from the Simply Charmed cartridge and used the Better Together cartridge to add the pink colors to the layers. The base layer of the bug was colored black and cut. I cut the sentiment Love Bug at 1 1/4" using both layers and again the Imagine for the colors. I added some Martha Stewart pink glitter to the heart on the back of the bug and some tutti fruity stickles to the bugs cheeks. I sprayed the sentiment with some Pearl Glimmer Mist but the shimmer doesn't show up in the photo. You do need to be careful doing this as it does look as if the color runs slightly. I added a pink satin ribbon and popped the bug up on pop dots. I am pleased how it turned out.